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Friday, 24 August 2012

Electric River have been plugging and
playing their way around the pubs'n'clubs of their home county Kent,
the garden of England, for the past couple of years, building up a
loyal and faithful following. The last year has seen them gigging
further afield and making a name for themselves on the London
circuit.

The In Your Name EP follows on from
2009's Radio No Go album and the Darwinian Flush EP, the intervening
years have seen the band grow into a formidable force to be reckoned
with. The five tracks: In You Name, Happy, Hold Your Nerve, Still
and an acoustic version of Hold Your Nerve, rock with a real honesty,
passion, power and punk rock kick.

Comparisons have been drawn between
them and The Clash, The Alarm and Bruce Springsteen, I'd also add Big
Country to that list. But....Electric River are no copyists, they
have their own distinct big sound, with ringing guitars, catchy sing
along choruses and storming melodies that stomp and stamp through
your head, until yer foot can't stop tapping, and the intelligent and
socially aware lyrics are buzzing round yer brain.

In Your Name is released by England
Street Records on Sept 10th and their as yet untitled
album is due for release early 2013. Expect to hear a lot more from
Electric River in the future months and years. Check out their
website here!

Dunno about 'gorgeous pop' this is a hypnotic and aggressive drug song
that could go on forever. Not sure about The Beatles and Beach Boys? either, more like MC5 and The Stooges. This is the 'radio friendly
're-recorded version, the original with the fucks instead of sucks
can be found on their beautiful, majestic and almost classical album
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. Fuck Brit-Pop,
this was Bonged and Monged Drug-Rock pure and simple, the gospel
according to Jason Pierce. Come Together here!

Sunday, 19 August 2012

I heard a presenter on the radio (LBC
97.3FM) this morning asking the listeners if “we have forgotten
about Afghanistan?”

Well over the last couple of weeks
people seem to have forgotten about anything that wasn't gold, sliver
or bronze related. So while Team GB were increasing the counties
gold reserves by winning medals, more soldiers lost their lives and limbs for
their country in wars that will continue for as long as the British
army are on Afghanistan and Iraqi sand.

It's not about democracy in a world
that's getting more un-democratic. Global condemnation rains down on
the Syrian regime, as their bombs rain down on innocent civilians
who's only crime is to want free elections and political rights. In
South Africa striking miners are slaughtered by the police. In
Russia, Putin has put the boot in, with Female punk band Pussy Riot
being given a disproportionate sentence of two years hard labour for
'hooliganism' after their impromptu performance in a Moscow church
that criticised his re-election as Russian leader amid allegations of
vote rigging, and generally offending his masculinity.

Then there's the case of Julian Assange
of Wikileaks, who sought political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy
in London a couple of months ago, he has now been granted it, but the
British Government are refusing to let him leave and fly to Ecuador,
or as they call it “escape the country” Is that allowed under
International Law? Mind you since when has defying interternational
laws stopped the US and UK governments doing exactly what they like?
Without their illegal war in Iraq we may never have heard of
wikileaks. The whole Wikileaks thing is a prime example of might
against right. The might of America versus the right to the truth.
Assange fears his extradition to Sweden to be questioned about sex
allegations will lead to American intervention and his eventual
deportation to 'the land of the free' to be held to account over the
leaking of US Military 'secrets'.

Freedom....there is no freedom when
people can't speak out against their leaders, but you can't kill
thoughts or lock up ideas. Leaders across the world need to remember
that, because one day their time will come, and that day and time
comes closer every time their abuses of power are seen live and
direct in perfect flat screen HD clarity on BBC/Sky/Al-Jazeera News,
that's if there's nothing more important to broadcast, like two weeks
of people running, swimming and throwing things.

I wonder how well Britain will do in
the forthcoming Para-Olympics? probably better than the last time thanks to all
the injured ex soldiers who've had their legs and arms blown off by
land mines in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tuesday, 14 August 2012

I'm gonna be lazy with this re-post, and re-print some of what I wrote in the original post.

"Today’s musical offering at the alter of rawk’n’roll comes from the swamp lands of 1980's West London; Goodnight Irony is basically the ‘Greatest Hits’ (if they’d had any) of the criminally ignored Folk Devils. It is a collection of wired and wild, spikey and fiery amphetamine laced rock’n’roll. " If you like the Jim Jones Review, then The Folk Devils could be for you!

Monday, 13 August 2012

Unfortunately I did see the closing
ceremony of the London Olympics, my daughter wanted to watch it.
What a load of shit! If that was a celebration of British music and
culture then the whole nation should be in mourning.

A load of washed up has beens Ray
Davies and The Who, sorry folks your time has passed, we've got Muse
and The Karzy Chiefs now, and they can fuck off with their third rate
pop and rock pap. George Michael....where's a lone sniper when you
needed one. The dedication and years of hard work by the athletes
was contrasted by the instant X-Factor celebrity culture of the likes
of No Erection, Massive Tantrum and Jessie J. “It's not about the
money, money” well the whole games have been about the money, from
the cost of staging them, the overpriced tickets, the sponsorship
deals and “the bling, bling” of the gold medals.

Freddie Mercury and John Lennon were
brought back to live, when they should remain dead and buried.
Imagine, yeah I imagined.....The taxis carrying those vacuous fame
hungry whores The Spice Girls crashed, causing serious injury.

Russell Brand, has he started taking
drugs again, and as for Liam Gallagher and his Beady Eye, I hope Noel
kicks his fuckin' head in for that performance of Wonderwall. Still
it could have been worse, The Clash or the Sex Pistols could have
made an appearance.

The music on show at the closing
ceremony didn't put a spanner in the works, it oiled the machine.

Where were the terrorists when you
needed them?

I aint even gonna bother with the rest
of the shite that was passed of as something to be proud of, the
supermodels etc Oh the irony of Eric Idle's performance of Always
Look On The Bright Side Of Life, because once the smoke from the fire
works has settled and the Olympic fever has passed, that's what
people are gonna have to do because....“Life's a piece of shit when
you look at it.” and we're gonna be in it for a long time unless we
wake up and see what is actually going on in front of our eyes not
what they want us to see.

Sunday, 12 August 2012

It's taken three years for Charlie
Harper (UK Subs) and Knox's (The Vibrators) side project band the
Urban Dogs acoustic album to hit the streets, and now it's here, has
it been worth the wait? Too right it has, Bonefield is a real
pedigree album that sees amongst its eleven tracks the mongrel punk
rock of Tomorrows Girls return to it's acoustic roots. This is an
album of the old, new, borrowed and the blues, all nicely packaged,
with an eight page booklet of photos, liner notes by Charlie, and a
great cover painted by Knox. For a “bare bones production” it's
got a lot meat to it, thanks in part to Knox's beautiful 'electric'
guitar licks'n'riffs that litter the album.

Individually Charlie and Knox have been
knocking out their punk rock blues for over four decades now, and they still sound fresh, exciting and full of life, taking on the old
blues classics Charlie used to busk in the 60's like Move It On Over,
Hobos Lullaby, and Cocaine, which feature some great harmonica
playing by The Harper, their sleazy sublime spin thru of Summertime,
really is a treat. The stripped to the bone anti war statements of
Warhead and War Baby, make them sound even more vital and relevant
than they did in the eighties. Classics both of em! A big ya! to
the rewired and wild acoustic feral ho-down that is New Barbarians. Dragnet is just a great song no matter what. There are a couple
of newies; Knox's autobiographical narrative Swampdog Blues and their
Dylan like protest number Not In My Name. From start to finish
Bonefield is a real gem of an album that doesn't disappoint, and
could surprise a few people along the way. Old punk classics are taken
to a different dimension and given new depths, and the old blues classics are given a punk twist. Highly recommended
and available from Time and Matter Records.

Olympic competitors crying because they
came second and only got a silver medal.

You don't see people crying if no one
likes their singing or guitar playing, do you? Oh no wait up, yes
you do, the X-Factor, no but that doesn't count, cos their not
musicians, they are contestants and it's a competition. That's what
makes music different from sport. It's not a competition about who's
the best band, although the(ir) media try to turn it into one. Stones
V's Beatles / The Clash V's The Pistols / Blur V's Oasis

On the radio this morning, the
presenter was referring to people having “caught the Olympic bug.”
think I'd rather catch the plague than “the Olympic fever.”
People have been brainwashed.

I saw some TV footage of the Olympic
volunteers who were telling visitors to the Olympic Park to “smile”
and “look happy”, all slightly sinister if you ask me

Give it a couple of years and people
will see that it really was a case of the emperors new clothes, all
style with the substance bought and sold through sponsorship deals,
for the medal winners.

I don't want to take anything away from
the athletes and their achievements, but they are just puppets/pawns
in the real game which is all about Great Britain PLC winning.

Will the future returns be larger than
the present costs, will the Olympic Legacy see more people taking up
sport, I mean they've been buying and wearing the clothing for years.

Sport and keeping fit are two different
things, you can exercise without competing, go running and cycling
without racing. What about just for fun!

More, more, more, more competition,
more gold more success. The government is proposing to make
'competitive sports' compulsory in all primary schools. Children
shouldn't be forced to compete, it should be a choice, between
themselves and their parents. After school Sports clubs should be
accessible to all and subsidised for those on low incomes

Politicians co-opting the success of
the Olympic Games for their own ends i.e. the promotion of UK PLC. I
mean who was it that stopped competitive sports in schools? And who
sold the school sports fields for housing? The politicians. If the
London Olympics have been a success it's not down to the politicians,
it's down to the people.

The majority of money for British sports comes from The National Lottery Fund, which is money made from the scratch cards and tickets people buy when they dream of the big win.

Sport and capitalism are great in bed
together, because it's all about the competition. The winners and
losers, success and failure. There are more losers than there are
winners in both, but there's an illusion that if you try you will
succeed on the ladder to success, but it really depends where abouts
on the ladder you start. Some are nearer to the top than others.

I've heard people say that “life is
about winning and losing” No that has how it has become thanks to
the capitalist machine and cogs like sport that keep it moving, music
on the other hand might make the machine money, but it doesn't
support the basis of the machine which is competition. Music is a
way to fight the machine and throw spanners in the works, in a way
sport never can. That's why it's Rock'n'Roll for me!

Sunday, 5 August 2012

Another musical re-offering. This time
it's the mighty COCK SPARRER, Live @ The Fulham Greyhound, London in 1983. With any repost requests, remember some times things take a little
longer than we'd like them to. In this age of instant everything, we
are losing the art of being patient, we want everything and we want
it now! Well here you go then is this what you want. Enjoy! and
thanx for waiting it will have been worth it.

Saturday, 4 August 2012

While I was sorting out the re-post of
the Sigue Sigue Sputnik Demos (see original post for the new link) I
thought I'd stick this little curio up, an acoustic?! Performance
from Nov 30th 2002 at The Wembley Exhibition Centre.... Sigue Sigue Sputnik
stripped and naked, back to basics. Check it out here! It Rocks!Once again thanx to the original uploader over at Guitars101 Forum.

Friday, 3 August 2012

Didn't see the Olympic Opening
ceremony, so can't comment whether it was a Marxist Lefty Stalinist
rewrite of British history, as many right wing commentators have said
it was. I understand that The Clash's London Calling and The Jam's
Going Underground were played at some point, why? Because London's
got an Underground system or were they used as a political statement?

I haven't paid much attention to any of
it really, which is hard when the whole spectacle is dominating the
media. If there was ever a time to bury bad news then now is that
time. The games are set against a backdrop of global conflict, from
Syria to Russia, people are being killed and imprisoned in struggles
for freedom against oppression, and a bit closer to home the number
of families being made homeless in London has risen.

David Cameron is sucking up to all the
visiting dignities, no doubt telling them that Britain’s a good
place for economic investment, with a ready and willing forced to
work force.

“You choose you leaders and place
your trust, as their lies wash you down and their promises rust.”

We were told the games were gonna be
good for the economy, well not according to businesses in London who
have seen a slump in their business, and the streets are empty.
Perhaps the number of troops and police in the capital and the
authorities terrorist paranoia have scared people away, either that
or the thought of bumping into the beaming buffoon that is Boris
Johnson.

When people do take to the streets they
end up getting knocked of their bike and killed by a bus carrying
journalists to the Olympic stadium, oh the irony as Britain won a few
medals in the cycling events, and after all that's what it all seems
to be about, the Gold medals.

One thing I did catch was that Britain
won a gold medal in the shooting, strikes me as a bit odd that with
the continuing scourge of gun crime across the nation, that we should
celebrate a victory in 'the shooting'

I hope the rest of the nation is
enjoying the games, as much as I'm not, because even with the
corporate big mac mobile sponsors money we're still gonna be paying
for the(ir) games for years to come.

“The public gets what the public
wants but I want nothing this society’s got.”

Thursday, 2 August 2012

Well not exactly, but it seems that my media fire account has
been suspended, can't say I'm surprised, it was only a matter of
time, many fellow bloggers had theirs shut down ages ago, so que,
sera, sera. Only problem is which file sharing site to use now? All
suggestions welcome! If there is stuff you want re-posted, go to the
GIMME THE MUZIK! tab at the top left, click and take it from there.

KEEPING THE BLOG FIRES BURNING!

SEALED WITH A KISS!

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

SOLIDARITY!

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BANG, BANG ! The writings on the wall....

....but the Great Wall of China aint gonna be long enough to line all the Mutha Fuckers up against!

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I DON'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT YOU HAD FOR YOUR BREAKFAST OR DINNER!

The Instagram Stazi informants share every aspect of their lives with fellow twittering facebook 'friends' millions starve while millions show each other what they had to eat.

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This Note Pad Says....

FIGHT THE POWER

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“Many palaces have tumbled, many walls have been knocked down, and many more will fall, many more will lose the ground. They’ll pretend to understand and they’ll make a few amends but we’ve seen it all before and we’re not taking it again....RISE UP!"

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....on Easy Action Records, Johnny Thunders sublime 1983 acoustic album Hurt Me. Includes a free bonus disc of the albums showcase gig in London (Click on image for more details.)

CHECK THIS SHIT OUT! Before The Blog there was The Band THE DRUG PROWLING WOLVES

“Trust, faith, good, bad...non of it matters. All you ever do is what you have to do. Follow your desires, fulfil your needs, escape from pain. That's all there is to it.” - Kevin Brooks.

"Things you use; things you possess, and are possessed by; things you build with - bricks, words. You build houses with them, and towns, and causeways. But the buildings fall, the causeways cannot go all the way. There is an abyss, a gap, a last step to be taken." - Ursula Le Guin.

FUK U PUTIN!

POWER TO THE PUSSY!

FUCK THEIR OLYMPIC DIAMOND JUBILEE FLAG FEST!

If it is what it is, then why is it what it is?
The truth is….it’s all lies!

Searching for beauty amongst all the ugliness, where all you find is a barbed wire caress.

Forget about what you haven't done, and think about what you have done! Forget about what could have been, and think about what could be!Forget about what you can't do and think about what you can do!
Don't forget....WE HAVE THE POWER....Think about it!!!!

CONSUMERS OF THE WORLD UNITE....THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT THEIR CHANGE!

WHILE SOME ARE LIVING THE DREAM, OTHERS ARE DYING IN THE NIGHTMARE!

Available @ ITunes.

“At the edge of a revolution / That’s exactly where we stand / And though we could seize the moment / We aspire to wear the brand / And we take our place in a profane state / With the common herd the beautiful and damned / I’ve had enough of this grey sky thinking / I’m coming in to land.” - TV SMITH

RAISED IN A PRISON

Click the above image to find out more about this gross miscarriage of Great British Justice. IT'S CRIMINAL! Gary was now been released from prison (March 2012) Justice will only be served when he has cleared his name!

DON'T JUST THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX / SMASH THE FUCKIN' BOX!
"Look at the outside. There's a new direction we've got to find." - Chelsea

If you hear anyone talking about getting a 3-D T.V tell ‘em to Fuck Off! and get a life instead. If flat screens, HD and plasma weren’t enough. As for those giant ipad things, for fucks sake…..WE DON’T NEED THIS SHIT!

Stay Free / Stay Strong / Keep On Keeping On!

All things connected / All things rejected / Looked to the left / Looked to the right / In the middle of the road / Waiting for the riot //

Whoever is in power; they need opposing. Only when there is no power for them to be in can the opposition cease!

Without hope and faith we are nothing!

"You drag yourself to work. Drug yourself to sleep. You're dead from the neck up, by the middle of the week." - Joe Scratch (Mercenary Clash)

PO-ATE-TREE KORNER.

Just like ducks being fed / All we get is stale bread.Just like cattle at the water / Fattened up and sent for slaughter.Just like the beasts at Noahs Zoo / We're kept in line two by two.Just like the clouds on a windy day / It's easy to get blown away.But just like a bird in a clear blue sky / I spread my wings and start to fly.

HIGH STREETI took a walk and what did I seeMiles and miles of misery.Down in the town they offer heavenFor all your pounds.Get back home open up the bagThen get the feeling you’ve been had.Just more shit you didn’t needConsumption feeds their fix for greed.

A Thought.........

For fucks sake....

10 Years on and we've been more than cheated, but I don't see Rock'n'Roll taking on the Government now!

If this story was true.....

...then I'd weigh a fucking ton!

In the beginning is the scream. We scream.

"When we write or when we read, it is easy to forget that the beginning is not the word, but the scream. Faced with the mutilation of human lives by capitalism, a scream of sadness, a scream of horror, a scream of anger, a scream of refusal: NO." - John Holloway

The Wall

"There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared; an adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real.........Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on." -Ursula Le Guin (In The Dispossessed)

‘Excuse me,’ they cry, ‘you can’t fight it; twice two is four! Nature doesn’t ask you about it; she’s not concerned with your wishes or with whether you like her laws or not. You must take her as she is, and consequently all her results as well. I mean to say, a wall is a wall, etc. But good God! What have the laws of nature and arithmetic to do with me, when for some reason I don’t like those laws or twice two? Naturally I shan’t break through the wall with my head, if I’m really not strong enough, but I wont be reconciled to it simply because it’s a stone wall and I haven’t enough strength to break it down. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (In Notes From Underground)

BRUTHA BLOGGERS WITH THEIR FINGERS ON THE BUTTON.

OLD SKOOL CUT 'N' PASTE

The Archmullah Of Canterbury

THE TWO HEADED BEAST

We're living in its legacy!

"I will shatter the power of the mighty, of the law and of property."

How did Gordon Brown run the country?

Just Like that!

THE DEVILS RIGHT HAND

Check out the state of Thatchers hand. This was the hand that signed the Poll Tax Bill and signed away workers rights and soldiers lives amongst other things. Now it is turning into a cloven hoof. (check out the picture with her next to Brown over on the main part of the blog, cos for some reason this picture has distorted and made her look even more like a monster than she was, if that's possible.)

'I can't believe this pain and misery are all in aid of a new society.' - Null&Void

ER!

That wasn't supposed to look like that. Ah! Fuck it never mind, call it art.

BROTHERS IN ARMS

Revolution is alive'n'kicking in 2007 Britain, courtesy of 'crackpot Cornish extremists' AKA The Cornish National Liberation Army who are taking their fight to the owners of second homes who come from out of the county. Dunno 'bout that gun though, only damage it looks like it could do is to themselves.

'I myself believe, perhaps on insufficient grounds, that the common man will win his fight sooner or later, but I want it to be sooner and not later - some time within the next hundred years, say and not some time within the nest ten thousand years.' - George Orwell (Homage to Catalonia,1938)

The powers that have for centuries been engaged in enslaving the masses have made a thorough study of their psychology. They know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. And the more gorgeously the toy is dressed, the louder the colors, the more it will appeal to the million-headed child. - Emma Goldman (Anarchism and Other Essays)

'It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.' - George Orwell (1984)

'Like Anthony, she wished at times that she had not been presented with this sudden freedom of choice. It had felt safer, when they had been blinkered by sickening anxiety, walking the narrow path, unable to risk a glance to right or left. Now, they stood in a flat and featureless plain, older, wiser but somehow diminished.' - Margaret Drabble (Ice Age)

'The formula works. He stumbled on the first and last truth about the leisure society, and perhaps all societies. Crime and creativity go together, and always have done. The greater the sense of crime, the greater civic awareness and richer the civilisation. Nothing else binds a community together. It's a strange paradox.' - J.G Ballard (in Cocaine Nights)

The proletarian dictatorship...has today grown into a frightful despotism and a new imperialism, which lags behind the tyranny of Fascist states in nothing. - Rudolf Rocker(1973)

'Brothers and SistersI wanna see a sea of hands out there.Let me see a sea of hands.I want everybody to kick up some noise.I wanna hear some revolution out there, brothersI wanna hear a little revolution.Brothers and sisters, the time has comeFor each and every one of you to decideWhether you are gonna be the problem,Or whether you are gonna be the solution.You must choose, brothers, you must choose.It takes 5 seconds, 5 seconds of decision.Five seconds to realize that it's time to move.It's time to get down with it.Brothers, it's time to testify and I want to know,Are you ready to testify?Are you ready?I GIVE YOU A TESTIMONIAL, THE MC5 !!!!'

THOSE WHO CAME B4

What would Hardie and Pankhurst make of New Labour and The Spice Girls? Is this what they fought for?

WHY IS BRITAIN SUCH A HATED NATION?

THIS MAN IS A THIEF!

For the last 10 years he has been stealing our money with his red briefcase. Only in a STALINIST TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY could a man like this become Prime Minister.

Who the fuck are........

Watch this space and find out. You'll be sorry.

If yer into The Mob and Zounds this is a must have. Available from: diamondDCactus.com

'Welcome to the desert of the real'

29/7/29 - 6/3/07

MPFree!

Available from: http://www.carbonsiliconinc.com/music/mp3.aspx

ANOK

'Anarchism in all its guises is an assertion of human dignity and responsibility. It is not a programme for political change but an act of social self-determination.' - Colin Ward

'A line of poetry is a chance to get rid of all the filth that clings to this accursed language, as if put there by stockbrokers' hands, hands worn smooth by coin' - Hugo Ball (1916)

BUllSHit

'Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison' - Henry David Thoreau

THATCHAAAARGH !

'No amount of education will make women first-rate politicians. Can you see a women becoming a prime minister? I cannot imagine a greater calamity for these islands than to be put under the guidance of a woman in 10 Downing Street.' - Margot Asquith

4 REAL !

'People should realise what the level of violence is like in most peoples lives. It's sad that working class resentment is always turned on itself. Nobody seems to realise that'

'So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything'

THERE ARE NO ANSWERS, JUST MORE QUESTIONS.

THERE'S A METHOD IN MY MADNESS

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A celebration of eveyday life, the excitement of the mundane. No reality TV cameras here, this is 4 real. What you see is what you get. THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT.